Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Olivia A. Craw, Michael A. Smith, Mark A. Wetherell
Summary: The studies demonstrate that direct social evaluation of multitasking is a more potent stressor compared to multitasking with indirect evaluation. Additionally, anticipation of socially evaluated multitasking leads to increased anxiety, tension, and worry, supporting the idea that threat anticipation may prolong the activation of stress mechanisms. The period of anticipation of stressful events may be critical to understanding the process of stress regulation, and further investigation into these processes is recommended.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Maire B. Ford
Summary: This study examines the impact of implicit theories on social threat. The results show that individuals with an incremental theory are better equipped to protect their social self-esteem, reduce rumination, and minimize concerns about their social skills compared to those with an entity theory when facing social-evaluative threat.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou
Summary: There is evidence that performance-related pay (PRP) leads to increased stress levels for employees, and this stress can be further heightened by performance monitoring and social-evaluative threat (SET). However, the study finds that fixed payment contracts with performance monitoring and SET can be more stressful for low-performing individuals compared to traditional piece-rate PRP contracts.
STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Juanzhi Lu, Selma K. Kemmerer, Lars Riecke, Beatrice de Gelder
Summary: Research on social threat has found that factors such as agent characteristics, proximity, and social interaction influence social threat perception. This study investigated the impact of control over threat exposure on threat perception using a virtual reality environment. Results showed that social threat triggered faster reactions at a greater virtual distance, and different brain responses were observed for angry and neutral avatars. Furthermore, measures like theta power and heart rate indicated the perception of threat. These findings suggest that cognitive evaluation and control ability play a role in social threat perception.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli, Dario Monzani, Laura Vergani, Virginia Sanchini, Ketti Mazzocco
Summary: Virtual reality (VR) has been utilized effectively in various fields, including healthcare and leisure, and a new application has emerged in social media where individuals can interact with avatars of deceased loved ones to cope with grief. This raises discussions about the potential psychological impacts of this use of VR and explores its hypothetical therapeutic applications in mourning treatment.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Bo Mi Lee, Chae Yeong Kang, Ling Li, Fatima Zahra Rami, Young-Chul Chung
Summary: The study developed a virtual reality-based social stress test (VR-TSST) and compared the physiological responses to this test in patients with psychosis and healthy controls. The results showed that patients with psychosis exhibited stronger autonomic and cardiovascular responses, but not endocrine responses, compared to the healthy controls. The VR-TSST could be a valuable tool for evaluating or training the stress response in patients with psychosis.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Georg Halbeisen, Gregor Domes, Eva Walther
Summary: This study used virtual reality technology to investigate the impact of ethnic background on stress reactions and found that endocrine stress reactions are independent of interviewer ethnicity and cannot be predicted based on implicit bias, explicit prejudice, or appearance concerns.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ellen C. McGarity-Shipley, Nick Jadidi, Kyra E. Pyke
Summary: This pilot study evaluated the impact of social evaluative threat (SET) on the effectiveness of a written shame protocol. The results showed that both the SET and No SET protocols significantly increased shame, while the control protocol did not. There was no difference in shame response between the SET and No SET protocols.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DU COMPORTEMENT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Eefje S. Poppelaars, Johannes Klackl, Belinda Pletzer, Eva Jonas
Summary: The study found that delta-beta amplitude-amplitude correlation (AAC) and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) did not significantly change in response to stress and were not correlated with stress responses. However, baseline AAC was found to be associated with more adaptive endocrine stress responses.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Christian Sonne, Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Cino Pertoldi, John Frikke, Anne Cathrine Linder, Bjarne Styrishave
Summary: Experimental findings suggest that placing cows in virtual fencing does not compromise their welfare, making virtual fencing a reasonable alternative to traditional electric physical fencing of cows.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Oswald D. Kothgassner, Andreas Goreis, Lisa M. Glenk, Johanna Xenia Kafka, Bettina Pfeffer, Leon Beutl, Ilse Kryspin-Exner, Helmut Hlavacs, Rupert Palme, Anna Felnhofer
Summary: The study found that both the real and VR-TSST induced significantly stronger cortisol and cardiovascular responses than the placebo on the first exposure. Although on the third visit, the real TSST still induced more self-reported stress than the placebo, the physiological responses were comparable to the placebo group.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hansen Li, Xing Zhang, Hongying Wang, Zongqian Yang, Haowei Liu, Yang Cao, Guodong Zhang
Summary: Research shows that virtual nature exposure can promote psychological and physiological relaxation, improve attentional resources, cognitive performance, and pain experience. However, there is insufficient evidence regarding the advantages of VR over traditional two-dimensional media in simulated nature exposure, requiring further study.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Alessandra R. Grillo, Gail M. Corneau, Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn
Summary: This study developed an observer-rated measure of behavioral engagement and examined its relationship with psychosocial stress. The results showed that the relationship between positive affect and biomarker levels varied depending on the context, especially negative evaluation.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Lotte van Dammen, Tor T. Finseth, Bethany H. McCurdy, Neil P. Barnett, Roselynn A. Conrady, Alexis G. Leach, Andrew F. Deick, Allissa L. Van Steenis, Reece Gardner, Brandon L. Smith, Anita Kay, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis found that VR stress tasks can elicit varying levels of physiological stress reactivity. VR may be an effective tool in stress research.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Johannes B. Finke, Andreas Behrje, Elena Hesslenberg, Tim Klucken, Hartmut Schaechinger
Summary: This study investigates how the interplay of environment, state, and trait factors affects stress responses during repeated short bouts of physical activity. The results suggest that the effects of social evaluation during physical stress depend on post-event processing and positive appraisal, while negative feedback decreases social self-esteem. Furthermore, post-hoc framing (success vs failure) may better predict subsequent stress-related hormonal effects.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
Meeting Abstract
Psychiatry
M. Fallon, J. Serrano-Careaga, D. A. Sbarra, M. -F. O'Connor
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH
(2015)
Letter
Psychiatry
Sebastian Karl, Monica Fallon, Roman Palitsky, Jessica A. Martinez, Harald Guendel, Mary-Frances O'Connor
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS
(2018)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
M. M. E. Riem, L. E. Kunst, M. H. J. Bekker, M. Fallon, N. Kupper
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Biological
M. A. Fallon, M. M. E. Riem, L. E. Kunst, W. J. Kop, N. Kupper
Summary: The study compared emotional and physiological responses to a standardized virtual reality TSST with an in vivo TSST and a control condition, finding similar emotional responses but slightly reduced cardiovascular responses in the VR setting. This suggests that social evaluative stress can be successfully induced in a VR environment, producing comparable emotional and slightly attenuated cardiovascular reactions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Kai Spohrer, Monica Fallon, Hartmut Hoehle, Armin Heinzl
Summary: This study highlights that simply combining different behavior change techniques in mHealth design may not necessarily lead to better results. Drawing on protection motivation theory and social upward comparison theory, researchers suggest a negative interaction effect between these two theories, restricting the effectiveness of their combined application.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2021)